Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 capacity of Vessel Control to answer increased calls for
2 help from the recreational boater? Thank you.
3 NICK TEGUE: My name is Nick Tegue. I live
4 in Lopez Island, and I'm here today to share with
5 everyone that I happen to be blessed with the opportunity
6 to live and work in a system in the Salish Sea in an eco
7 system that's virtually found nowhere else in the North
8 Pacific Ocean, and that truly has some remarkable
9 qualities and attributes that should be fully recognized.
10 I feel really blessed that I have the opportunity to
11 work in these lands and be a steward of these lands like
12 others before me, 14, 12,000 and 10,000 years in my past,
13 so it's incredibly an honor for me to have an opportunity
14 to work and be a steward of the land.
15 What I really wanted to share mostly is that I think
16 it's incredibly short sighted, and it's actually putting
17 profits over the land, people, and the systems that make
18 up this special area.
19 And I believe that is short sighted, and also leads
20 to examples of where profits over people, the land, and
21 the organisms that live in the system is truly amazing.
22 That's all I really had to say.
23 SUSAN DEHLENDORF: Hi, my name is Susan
24 Dehlendorf. I live on San Juan Island. I'm a member of
25 the San Juan County Planning Commission, and I'm very
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